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What site or sites do you use to keep yourself up to date on the latest trends in development and/or to help continue to move forward your development as a programmer?

I'm particularly interested in answers relevant to web development, php, mysql, or Drupal, but general interest or best practices sites are also appreciated.

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http://slashdot.org

I find that I tend to track developments in the particular technology/language/platform that I'm working on in a specific site, but Slashdot is quite useful for keeping one's pulse on the broad spectrum of what's out there.

bmdhacks
I'd avoid slashdot -- the comments are a cesspool.
Joe Van Dyk
If you sort by ranking, there can be some gems. Try http://alterslash.org to get slashdot boiled down to the good stuff.
bmdhacks
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This question is closely related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5119/what-are-the-best-rss-feeds-for-programmersdevelopers

Tyler
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I tend to read GeeksWithBlogs and MSDN Blogs.

kodefuguru
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Reddit Programming

Corey Goldberg
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I've Stumpled Upon a lot of cool stuff, but coding horror is also aweseome. Awesome but dangerous - a bit like wikepedia though in that you go in for one article and five hours later wonder how you got to something completely random and unconnected!

Jon Cage
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I'm a big fan of Hacker News

EmmEff
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StackOverflow.com

jW
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I can't speak for the LAMP stack, but in .Net I listen to a lot of podcasts and I go to user group meetings held by Microsoft.

I'm sure that there are PHP and MySQL meetups and other types of meetings like that. You might want to go to those. Also, the Software Engineering Radio podcast is a pretty good language agnostic programming podcast that talks about best practices.

Charles Graham
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For Java developers,

Javalobby
InfoQ
TheServerSide

SamS